I'd like you to keep it on list. I'm interested in the pros/cons on electric
motors in LBCs.
Don Malling
Nicholas Wolf wrote:
> I have been asked by another lister to take this topic off-list, so I'll
> keep it brief. I'm happy to chat off-list.
>
>>> (yes, SOx causes acid rain... but CO2 is the bigger problem, IMHO).
>>
>
>> I'll challenge that statement, Nick ... you try breathing air
>> containing 300
>> ppm SOx and I'll breathe air containing 300 ppm CO2, let's see who dies
>> first !
>
>
> That's not the point. SOx is a regional problem, and it doesn't stick
> around. As soon as we figure out how to stop producing it (and NOx),
> acid rain is gone in a year. CO2 is a global problem, taking hundreds
> of years to build up or diminish, and we may already have passed a
> "point of no return" in terms of climate change because of it.
>
>> Are equal amounts of SOx and CO2 being released into the environment?
>
>
> In California, power plants produce over 4000 times more CO2 than SOx.
> -Nick
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